Date:         Sat, 28 Dec 1996 02:36:15 GMT
Reply-To:     "John E. Bentley" <BentleyJ@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "John E. Bentley" <BentleyJ@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: Netcom
Subject:      Re: Latest version of SAS
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After our systems people jacked around for three months, they finally
loaded version 6.09 to run concurrently with version 6.08.  I have a
suspicion it took them about a half-hour to do, actually.  I'm
convinced that most upgrades are delayed because the systems people
simply don't want to deal with the potential hassle, aren't clever
enough to run two version simultaneously, and SAS programmers (like my
group) don't have the clout necessary to make systems get their ass in
gear.
 
We've been running the Base product of 6.09 for about a month now with
no problems (on MVS all we need is Base.)
 
On 24 Dec 1996 17:31:13 GMT, m1bfg00@newfed.frb.gov (Bruce F. Gilsen)
wrote:
 
>>> = Dianne Rhodes (Original Message)
>>  = Tim Berryhill (reply)
>
>>> Sent by:Dianne Rhodes <drhodes@FENIX2.DOL-ESA.GOV>
>>>  Our mainframe time sharing vendor, Sungard located in Voorheis New Jersey,
>>> installed SAS 6.09 in late July or August.  It is a production version, not
>>> beta.  I have been using it since September and have not encountered any
>>> problems.  I am curious as to why other MVS mainframes are still running
>>> 6.08.  There wasn't much publicity about loading 6.09, maybe it is there
>>> and you have to ask for it explicitly.  On our system, when you execute
>>> "SAS" it still brings up version 5.
>>>
>>> Dianne Rhodes
>>> drhodes@fenix2.dol-esa.gov
>>> US Department of Labor / CDSI
>
>In article <vines.vq39+XFOhma@go50.comp.pge.com>,
TWB2%Rates%FAR@GO50.COMP.PGE.COM writes:
>> Diane, After the expected and unexpected grief of the 5.18->6.06 conversion
(we
>> were never able to run 6.06 in production), and the difficulties with the
>> 6.06->6.07 conversion, even though the 6.07->6.08 conversion went well, we
are
>> in no hurry to convert to 6.09.  In many large changes version 1 is rotten,
>> version 2 has most of the bugs fixed and version 3 is the optimised version
>> which should have shipped as version 1, while version 4 has all of the goofy
>> ideas people kept out of versions1-3 by putting them on the "enhancements
list."
>> In this regard, I suspect 6.08 is version 3, and I would be happy to make
our
>> next conversion to V7.
>>
>> Tim Berryhill - Contract Programmer and General Wizard
>> TWB2@PGE.COM or http://www.aartwolf.com/twb.html
>> Frequently at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco
>> The correlation coefficient between their views and
>> my postings is slightly less than 0
>
>At the Federal Reserve Board, we never put MVS SAS Release 6.06 into
>production.  We went straight from 5.18 to 6.07, then to 6.08.  Release
>6.09 is currently available for testing and is scheduled to be put into
>production on Saturday, February 22, 1997.  Hope that data point helps.
>
>Bruce Gilsen m1bfg00@frb.gov
 
John
Lakeview, Chicago, Illinois, USA, North Am, Terra
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